LABOUR DAY 2021 🇺🇬 | BY FRANK MUGABI | Over the years, majority of women in Uganda have been disenfranchised from the formal business sector due to limited access to affordable credit, limited technical knowledge on business entrepreneurship and management, limited access to markets as well as information regarding business opportunities. To …
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Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Any effort geared towards supporting businesses is highly needed at this time for the economy to fast recover from the COVID-19 crisis. A group of civil society organisations under their umbrella body, Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) has listed challenges women face in business …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Martin Lubega, a nurse based at Soroti Regional Referral hospital has written a handbook providing a step by step guide to health workers and women about pregnancy care. Titled, ‘My pregnancy’, the first of its kind to be reviewed and approved by the Ministry of …
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Washington, US | XINHUA | The U.S. House on Wednesday passed a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), legislation sponsored by President Joe Biden in the 1990s when he was a U.S. senator but lapsed in 2019 as its latest revision expired. Voting largely along party lines, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the world celebrated Women’s Day March 8, Hariss International (RIHAM) continued promoting programmes that show they are an organization that upholds diversity and does not define staff and customers by their differences. Riham last week celebrated, with all their female employees, their vital role in …
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The pandemic has worsened marginalization of women and girls on the continent Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | The attainment of gender-related sustainable development goals in Africa risks becoming a mirage as the continent grapples with aftershocks linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new United Nations report. The pandemic has …
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COMMENT | MARTIN A NSUBUGA | The International Women’s Day, March 8th, can be traced back to the early 1900s, with women’s movements in different countries leading protests against a wide array of “injustices”. Key among the issues raised back then, were deplorable working conditions for women. Over the years, International …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women represent a slightly lower proportion than men in terms of infections and deaths from COVID-19, according to a preliminary analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO) carried out in 28 African countries. The analysis, based on gender-sensitive COVID-19 epidemiological data provided by countries, reveals …
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Kampala, Uganda | Ronald Musoke | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has welcomed an apology from Aargauer Zeitung a Swiss publication which on Feb.09 published a story about her with what online readers referred to as “a racist and sexist headline.” The distasteful headline, “This grandmother will be the new chief of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The number of women screening for cervical cancer has reduced. This is according to doctors from the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI). According to officials from UCI, in the last six months, they have screened only 10 women who were referred from several health centers. Previously, …
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